Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 11
Never touch a bat; some bats carry rabies or similar viruses.
Who acts: you, bats · What happens: not touch, carry · To what, where: bat, rabies
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bats), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 touch | advmod |
| 2 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bat | det |
| 4 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 touch | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 carry | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 bats | det |
| 7 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carry | nsubj |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 touch | parataxis |
| 9 | rabies | rabies | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carry | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 viruses | cc |
| 11 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 viruses | amod |
| 12 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rabies | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch | imperative | you not said here | a bat | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bat=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | some bats | rabies or similar viruses | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabies=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:11.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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